Match Day Parking Restrictions still in force?

[Pothole]

Mrs Pothole works at a Midlands university in a building across the road from a Premier League stadium. The road outside her building is subject to matchday parking restrictions. Since before the end of last season no spectators have been allowed to attend and stadia put games on with a skeleton staff, but the local council is still enforcing the restrictions on matchdays. This seems ridiculous to me. An enforcement officer told Mrs P earlier today that she'd better move her car (having been issued with a ticket) because "the police would be coming to tow it away, because terrorism" which seems highly unlikely to me. What kind of a threat would be perceived 300 metres away from a ground in which an England under 21s Euro qualifier against Turkey which nobody will be attending?

Anyone else have experience of the same thing happening in the environs of other stadia around the country?

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Edited by Pothole on Tuesday 13th October 17:22

[Pothole]

Anyone?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Of course it's bleeding obvious that matchday restrictions should not apply when no one is actually going to the match. Or should not be enforced by anyone with an ounce of common sense. But try telling that to some jobsworth fool, who lives by the rules.

[Pothole]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Of course it's bleeding obvious that matchday restrictions should not apply when no one is actually going to the match. Or should not be enforced by anyone with an ounce of common sense. But try telling that to some jobsworth fool, who lives by the rules.

I don't blame the jobsworth, he's just doing as he's told. We all do that in a dodgy job market, surely?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Pothole said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men. Of course it's bleeding obvious that matchday restrictions should not apply when no one is actually going to the match. Or should not be enforced by anyone with an ounce of common sense. But try telling that to some jobsworth fool, who lives by the rules.

I don't blame the jobsworth, he's just doing as he's told. We all do that in a dodgy job market, surely?

In which case, his boss is the jobsworth. But at the source of the issue, there's a jobsworth.

[Short Grain]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

In which case, his boss is the jobsworth. But at the source of the issue, there's a jobsworth.

Covid and the current situation is a jobsworths dream scenario! (Apart from the Health and Deaths aspect of course, even jobsworths have a heart?) How many new 'rules' have appeared since March I wonder?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Short Grain said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

In which case, his boss is the jobsworth. But at the source of the issue, there's a jobsworth.

Covid and the current situation is a jobsworths dream scenario! (Apart from the Health and Deaths aspect of course, even jobsworths have a heart?) How many new 'rules' have appeared since March I wonder?

The manager of my gym is a bugger for this. He's just made up loads of ridiculous rules, just for the sake of being seen to do something. Many of them are actually counter productive. He's a total moron.

Today's one is, the showers are open, but you cannot take in soap or shampoo. Just use plain water. Because virus???